The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

The Advocate is a bi-weekly newsmagazine focusing on gay life in American. The Advocate includes news features, investigative reports, arts and entertainment features, celebrity interviews, financial columns, and health columns.

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Articles from May 24

One New York Times same-sex marriage notice in April wound up not in the paper's Weddings &amp; Celebrations section but on the Washington pages, and it caused an immediate war of words between Republicans and Democrats. The couple in question are...

My Summer of Love * Directed by Paul Pavlikovsky * Written by Pavlikovsky, based on the novel by Helen Cross * Nathalie Press, Emily Blunt, Paddy Considine * Focus Features Anyone smitten with the obsessive love at the center of Peter Jackson's...

Gay rights activists in Connecticut initially pushed lawmakers there to legalize marriage for same-sex couples. But when support for the idea was less than warm, they compromised on a civil unions bill. On April 20 the state's Republican governor,...

Name: Bri Brewer Age: 17 Hometown: Brookhaven, Miss. I attend Mississippi School of the Arts, a residential high school in Brookhaven, Miss., and I am openly lesbian. Because our school is on a historic campus that isn't completed, we must...

In January 2003, Wissam Abyad, an openly gay man in Egypt, arranged an in-person meeting at a Cairo McDonald's with a gay man he'd met via the Internet. The man claimed that he'd just moved to the area and wanted to meet other gay men. At 1 P.M....

James Marsden is holding on to a few secrets about his new film Heights: "I don't want to ruin the plot for people." But he's up-front about the gay thing. "Sometimes I'll read something where a straight actor [playing gay] will get defensive and go,...

By the night in May 2004 that would forever alter Sgt. Robert Stout's life, he had become used to the dirty, dangerous, and sand-swept reality of fighting in Iraq. The 23-year-old--raised on a farm in rural central Ohio--was a few months into his job...

Microsoft Corp. has enjoyed a reputation as a leader in corporate equality for gay and lesbian employees. But it's an image that has proved fragile under the weight of a divisive political issue, and now the Redmond, Wash.-based technology giant is...

Never underestimate the power of girls in little plaid skirts. While Angela Robinson's D.E.B.S.--the title of both her acclaimed short and her boisterously fun feature film--unapologetically featured a lesbian romance at its center, the films showed...

Daniel Lippold used to defend his hometown of Atwood, Kan., and its nearly 1,300 citizens against those who described it as "hickville." Atwood is a special place, he would say, one where the food is homegrown and the people are friendly. He loved...

Maybe we should start by dispensing with the slurs. Benedict XVI is not a former Nazi; he's not Damien; he's not dumb. He's a deeply learned theologian with dozens of books and essays under his belt. It's also too crude to dismiss him as a homophobe....

"Justice Scalia has no pity for the millions of gay Americans on whom sodomy laws and official homophobia have such an effect, so it is difficult to sympathize with his brief moment of 'humiliation.'" --Excerpt from an open letter e-mail from New...

Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World * Directed by John Scagliotti * Narrated by Janeane Garofalo * Here TV network * Premieres May 11 For gays and lesbians in the Western world, talk of political progress in a conservative-dominated...

What would be worse: if your girlfriend left you for a man or for a woman? Ever since I started dating my girlfriend, Meg, who has dated men in the past--not men she feigned desire for, like a closeted dyke might, but men she actually loved, both physically...

In 1992 at the age of 19, I was not naive enough to believe that voting for Bill Clinton would result in political change for the better; I bought the line that we had to "get Bush out." When Clinton succeeded in dismantling welfare to an extent that...

Probably the gayest thing to come out of Tennessee is Dolly Parton. This may be saying a lot, I especially when you consider this is the state that gave us Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley, the pampered ducks of the Peabody, Minnie Pearl, Cybill Shepherd,...

Before she was a fabulous comedy chameleon, Tracey Ullman was a teen dancer touring with a gaggle of chorus boys. In her variety shows--the 1987-1990 Fox series The Tracey Ullman Show (which spawned The Simpsons) and HBO's Tracey Takes On ..., Ullman...

Austin Rooke Age: 34 Military job: Army intelligence officer Stationed in: Fort Meade, Md., (1995-1998), then Doha, Qatar, (2002-2003) after being involuntarily called back following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Left the Middle...